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Time spent on bureaucratic paperwork is a real economic cost even though it doesn't appear in government budgets.Their words
it is simply ridiculous that a ruinously expensive policy can be budget-neutral if the expense consists of wasted time rather than wasted money. But that's still a cost!
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Effective Altruism lets people appear both rational and moral and is the ultimate ego trip.Their words
Effective Altruism lets you appear rational and moral - the ultimate ego trip.
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People who want to appear moral are attracted to the left. People who want to appear rational are attracted to the right.
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In this model, if someone or something could “commandeer” the Intelligence sector, their power over society would be much more limited than it might appear at first. The world does not change that much at first, because the necessary complements are lacking.
A simple model of AI-aided economic growthmarginalrevolution.com
9 September
4 September
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Large engineering projects are more soluble in IQ than they appear, and many tech companies are overstaffedTheir words
Large-scale engineering projects are more soluble in IQ than they appear Many tech companies are 2-10x overstaffed
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10 May
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corporations, organizations are the oldest form of artificial intelligence on the planet. They are an example of this emergent intelligence.
7 April
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if somebody, you know, is standing behind the dessert table and is replenishing, restocking the desserts and keeps kind of you know, adding adding new ones in, it may turn out that you know, a little bit later a much better desserts appear.
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12 November 2025
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even if the tech is diffusing fast uh this time around for true economic growth to appear it has to sort of diffuse to a point where the work the work artifact and the workflow has to change and so that's kind of one place where I think uh the change management required for a corporation to truly change I think is something we shouldn't discount
26 September 2025
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If you go to look about how psychologists think about learning, there's nothing like uh imitation. Maybe there are some extreme cases where humans might do that or appear to do that, but there's no basic animal learning process called imitation.
4 September 2025
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So birds did not appear as a result of the dinosaurs going extinct. Birds lived alongside the dinosaurs for 100 million years. The birds were not new on the scene, and it's not like, "Oh, the dinosaurs died, and from the ashes rose the birds." No, they've been knocking around forever.
9 June 2025
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the word "listen" doesn't appear anywhere in the essay, and listening is arguably a product manager's most important tool.
A How to Hire a Product Manager Retrospectivebringthedonuts.com
5 June 2025
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the text embeddings across LLMs appear to largely converge on a "universal geometry" despite differing architectures, parameter counts, and training sets.
6 January 2025
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One thing humans appear to be much better than LLMs at (as of January 2025) is not getting distracted.
30 September 2024
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I think that when people wanted to build a big building without rebar or cement, you end up building something with a fat base that goes up to a skinny top, and that turns into a pyramid.
21 September 2023
From one piece What I learned from analyzing 300 particle size distributions for 24 espresso grinders 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Grinders that produce fewer fines (more unimodal) also tend to produce more uniform particle sizes.Their words
Contrary to popular hearsay, more unimodal grinders appear to also be more uniform on average.
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Conical burrs tend to be less unimodal and less uniform than flat burrs, though the two overlap a lot.Their words
Conical burrs appear on average less unimodal and less uniform, although there is a large overlap meaning that one can easily find a specific flat burr that is less unimodal and less uniform than a specific conical burr.
10 June 2022
From one piece AGI Ruin: A List of Lethalities 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The field calling itself AI safety is not being remotely productive on the problems that are actually lethal.Their words
It does not appear to me that the field of ‘AI safety’ is currently being remotely productive on tackling its enormous lethal problems.
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Many alignment problems of superintelligence will not naturally appear at pre-dangerous, passively-safe levels of capability.
25 January 2022
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the reality is the kids that make new things work from scratch. It actually turns out that they actually have been deep in the domain for a long time. Almost every case, they've been thinking hard about the problem that they're trying to solve actually for in in a lot of cases for many years.
8 April 2019
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Hidden FiguresTheir words
The book and movie only tangentially touch on Apollo itself (although it does appear!), but they make the list because they are well worth the read / watch, and they tell an important story of yet another facet of the immense collaboration that was the space program, and the incredible diversity of people and backgrounds and stories and kinds of work that went into making it all work.
28 July 2018
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The Messy MiddleTheir words
I was up very late last night reading a great book that will appear in stores soon written by Scott Belsky entitled The Messy Middle that explains why this passion is required.
5 June 2018
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